germinate

Jumping straight into a list of major to-dos would leave little time for ideas to germinate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

For example, some seeds in the soil rely on heat shock or smoke to germinate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025

And getting certification is a rigorous, costly process, as seeds need to be tested in a laboratory for their purity and things like how well they germinate.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025

For instance, certain types of organic molecules formed in soil during fires are needed for many seeds to germinate.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024

If any of them can still germinate after their ordeal, that'll be great.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Normally, a pollen grain that sticks to the stigma of a flower during pollination germinates into a long tube that grows straight and unbranched through the ovary to the ovules, where fertilisation takes place.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

Microgreens are simply the cotyledons or seed leaves, that first emerge from a seed when it germinates.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023

Ditto germinates the seeds and when they’re about 2 inches tall, they pack them up and ship them out so customers can then plant them in their windowsills and gardens.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

The need some feel to atone germinates a perceived opportunity for redemption; humans initially, ignorantly and irrationally feared the tiger-like creature, believing it to be a danger to them and their sheep.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2021

The species should be raised from seed, which is easily obtainable and germinates readily, or in default they will root from cuttings.

From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook

Eight seedlings successfully germinated, with two now transferred to Logan Botanic Garden, where the climate is considered particularly suitable for rare Chilean plants.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

It is easy to laugh at the childlike naiveté of sending seeds to Mars, an idea that never germinated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

But Schneider and her colleagues believe there’s probably a healthy collection of seeds in the soil from previous years that hasn’t germinated yet that could help it recover when conditions are right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Once the grains germinated in a laboratory, the seedlings were planted in water in June, and harvesting began in early October.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

Either they were bulbs she had already planted or they had been in the sack so long they had germinated.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Don’t trample or pick the flowers and stay on the paths because even barren ground could have seeds germinating beneath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Deadwood-decomposing fungi feed germinating orchids, providing the carbon their tiny seeds don't have.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025

When I was here in March covering Mr Gething’s victory, the seeds of his political demise were germinating before our eyes.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024

In a final step, the researchers used a chemical process to confirm whether the excreted seeds were capable of germinating.

From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024

I put the drawing of the man with the germinating brain in my room on the wall where I can see it when I roll over.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan